Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The wicked rule the village——2 The terrible village tyrant

According to the theory of modern economics, the strength of a social group does not depend on its number, but on its degree of organization.The power of organizations is powerful, and the power of organizations linked to the regime is especially powerful.Although Chinese peasants are numerous, they are too scattered and do not have sufficient organizational resources to resist repression, while rural cadres are tightly organized, and they are the legal agents of the state power in the countryside.If this agent, even just a few of them, put aside the will of the state regime and use the organizational resources of the regime to serve their own interests, it would be very terrifying!

Although Zhang Guiquan only has a primary school education, he relies on the real power of the deputy director of the village committee (the local name is "deputy village head"), and at the same time, with the help of a huge family power (seven sons), he is in Xiaozhangzhuang. Covering the sky with one hand, he became the "village tyrant" who ran rampant in the village. In 1997, he knew that the amount of wheat expropriated by the county was the same as that in 1996, but he insisted on an increase of 50 catties per person.In order to accumulate wealth, he can be said to have a "way" to make money. The "five taxes and one fee" are the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees that he arbitrarily added: whoever raises a pig will pay an extra forty-five yuan; If you need to pay more than 150 yuan to 500 yuan, it is up to his "golden words" to decide whether to pay more or less; for all the old houses in the village, each household has to pay 50 yuan; Ten yuan will be paid for one mu; if someone adds a tractor, they will pay fifty yuan for each tractor.Zhang Guiyue just bought a "small four-wheel" with all she had, and paid forty-five yuan before it was put into use. In the canopy, it seemed to be silently mourning for his master.As for the "family planning and childcare fees", no one can understand the meaning of the word "supportive education".

On the one hand, it is better to set up a name and collect people's wealth as much as possible; on the other hand, Zhang Guiquan and his family don't have a penny or a dime for the "withdrawal funds" that should be turned over according to the regulations, as well as the "five taxes and one fee" set up by him privately. of. Relying on the power in his hands, he invaded land, seized fish ponds, embezzled public property, embezzled public funds, and was already full of evil.How did such a villain become the head of the village committee?Besides, he is only the deputy director of the village committee, so what are the village director and the village party secretary doing?Do you go along with him, or do you become a Bodhisattva who keeps your mouth shut?For these, we were always puzzled during the interview.

Later, when we learned about Zhang Guiquan's history, those of us living in the city felt even more incredible.It turns out that the problems in Xiaozhangzhuang are far from the confusion of financial management, and the problems exposed in the construction of grassroots organizations are even more surprising.On May 20, 1992, Zhang Guiquan, then director of the Xiaozhangzhuang Village Committee, was sentenced by the Guzhen County People's Court to one year's imprisonment, suspended for two years, for embezzling and raping women.During this period, Xiaozhangzhuang was merged into Zhangqiao Village. Zhang Guiquan was still serving his sentence, but he changed himself and became the deputy director of Zhangqiao Village Committee.The villagers said that Zhang Guiquan was not democratically elected by everyone at all, and was completely appointed by the township party committee and individual leaders of the village branch forcibly.

Although the sentence is still in prison, such a vicious criminal can still be entrusted with important tasks by the two-level party organization. This makes Zhang Guiquan, who is full of five poisons, not only does not change his bad habits, but becomes more confident and more cruel. Strictly speaking, the behavior of people like Zhang Guiquan already has the basic characteristics of the bullies in the rural areas of China's feudal society, but it is indeed quite different in nature from the bullies at that time, because the people in the village at that time People are outraged by the rampage of humanoids, but the scale of land is generally not large, and there is not much floating wealth. Moreover, they have not obtained the position of public power in the village in the legal sense. There is public power in the village in the legal sense. Therefore, village cadres like Zhang Guiquan are more harmful to society than bullies in rural areas in feudal society!

Although the intentional homicide case of Zhang Guiquan and his son is only an "individual case", the "Zhang Guiquan phenomenon" is enough to make us worry.During the interview, we found that the phenomenon of "violent people ruling the village" in rural areas has become shockingly prominent, and Zhang Guiquan is just a vivid specimen produced by the special mechanism of the operation of public power at the grassroots level in rural China today. Conclusions and reflections are undoubtedly very easy to make. The question is, how can we prevent similar tragedies from happening again?